The first provided more data related to what you said, and even substantiates your statement. Thought you would be interested. And when we make such statements we should try to substantiate them, else it is just our word.
Yet in addition, i did not specify the 1800's, but simply referred back to when people married shortly after reaching puberty. And i was mainly thinking of Bible times and women, for as Rushmore says, "Girls were given in marriage when they were old enough to bear children.."
As for virginity going ok without using ancient Jewish marriage, i hope so, but i am sure it did better even Jewish culture when the law was upheld.
But i am sure the 1800's did better than now, as along with the general moral decline, the percentage of those who do marry radically changed, and besides pop. growth being the lowest rate on record since the since the government started tracking the fertility rate in 1909, 40.7 percent of the babies born in the United States were born to unmarried.
The average age of marriage today has been pretty common in America and Britain.
While many sources give older ages than what the census bureau is describing there for America in 1890 and 1900, here are the British numbers.
This is British govt numbers.